BARROW,
Alexander
(1801—1846)
Senate
Years
of
Service:
1841-1846
Party:
Whig
BARROW,
Alexander,
a
Senator
from
Louisiana;
born
near
Nashville,
Tenn.,
March
27,
1801;
attended
the
United
States
Military
Academy,
West
Point,
N.Y.,
1816-1818;
studied
law;
admitted
to
the
bar
in
1822
and
commenced
practice
in
Nashville,
Tenn.;
moved
soon
afterward
to
Louisiana
and
settled
in
Feliciana
Parish
and
continued
the
practice
of
law,
which
he
later
abandoned
to
become
a
planter;
member
of
the
State
house
of
representatives
for
several
terms;
elected
in
1840
as
a
Whig
to
the
United
States
Senate
and
served
from
March
4,
1841,
until
his
death
in
Baltimore,
Md.,
December
29,
1846;
chairman,
Committee
on
Public
Buildings
(Twenty-seventh
Congress),
Committee
on
Militia
(Twenty-seventh
and
Twenty-eighth
Congresses);
interment
in
a
private
cemetery
at
Afton
Villa
plantation,
near
Bayou
Sara,
La.
Source:
Biographical
Directory
of
the
United
States
Congress,
1771-Present,
contributed
by
A.
Newell.
